Poll: Does your Civ IV actually work?

[elderotter]

look did I have problems - yes, but after tweaking the options game works fine...now if I could just stop the waves of barbarians(and no I didnt set it to raging) and relax long enough to build settlers(2 more - all I need is 2 more) and not build more and more military I'd be ok. Though I admit if an actual Civ attacks me they will run into highly promoted units on my side.

 

[Vertronix]

Installed without any issues.....runs great, looks great.

P4-2.0
2 GB RAM
GeForce 4

 

[Silica_Pathways]

I installed latest graphical drivers and i got it working. Though lagging is terrible...

 

[Speed Of Sound]

I am having so many problems that i dont even know what to do. I guess its just time to wait for the first patch. A HUGE disappointment.

 

[Mad2rix]

Mine should work:

Dell Dimension 8300
Pentium 4 HT: 3.00 Ghz
RAM: 1.25 GB DDR 400mhz
Graphics Card: GeForce 5200 FX 128MB
WinXP SP2

 

[doggiedaddy]

I vote yes. I have played 3-4 games with virtually no problems. What I have run across is fairly minor and will probalby be addressed with a patch.
Running
1.7Ghz 512mb ram 64mb Nvidia (Dell system)
I switched to medium details and it runs fairly smoothly.

--Went to turn on the grid once and the game crashed.

--Tried to address choppy audio by turning off hardware acceleration for sound. That made it worse. Brought it back up and the game worked okay.

Make sure your hard drive has some room for the virtual memory. This game is a memory hog.

 

[MobBoss]

Yes, plays flawlessly in single and multi player.

 

[felder]

Um, you're kidding about Civ III right? I had all sorts of problems with that game. In fact when it shipped it had a bug where it would set the refresh rate to the max reported by Windows...why it would do that instead just using the one you had set is beyond me. Anyway, if windows couldn't detect your monitor because it was a little old (i.e. not plugnplay) it just used a standard dialog that listed every resolution and refresh rates up to like 160 or something and it let you choose. Thus windows would report 160 was the highest supported rate to CivIII. Nothing like setting the refresh rate to 160 with a resolution of 1024x768... This meant I couldn't play it until a fix was posted to make it stop doing that.

Multiplayer with PTW was extremely bugged. Players dropping out...freezes...game wouldn't start...etc.

Even now, I still get crashes to the Desktop, and there are a lot of known outstanding issues with Conquests.

My experience with Civ IV, so far, has been the complete opposite of this. I have played for 10 hours so far, in 3 3ish hour stretches...have had no graphical glitches, crashes, sound problems, etc. This isn't to say other people aren't having them, but to indicate that Civ III was perfect at launch is completely wrong...even after two expansions and a ton of patches Civ III still has quite a few problems.

It seems like nearly everyone has bugs (including me).

Vote no if:
-Black terrain
-Game crashes
-Other graphical glitches
-Other sound glitches
-Text glitches
- Installation Problem

Vote Yes if your game worked like CIV III, which means there were never any game-play related problems.

Lets see what % has problems. If it's above 25%, I think Firaxis and 2K Games has some explaining to do.

 

[White Elk]

My copy hasn't arrived yet,
but I stopped in to check the results..

71 yes
17 no

That gives me some confidence..

 

[RoboPig]

stupid black terrain!

 

[Mujadaddy]

it runs for me, i do experience sound glitches like the opening screen with the fraxis logo. it always freezes for about 10 seconds and skip to the main menu. and the video and sound freezes during wonder movies.

Other than that, the game runs great for me.

Same here, except that it doesn't "Freeze" just skips a widdwe bit...

Voted "yes" ... although I disagree with your assessment that 25% means it's Firaxis' fault... My system specs are in my sig.

 

[Warman17]

Well it works, however for the criteria you gave it doesn't because I have the eyeball leaders.

 

[SeaDog98520]

I was worried by all the bad posts, but then it gave me some time to upgrade my nvidia driver.. installed without a hitch and plays very well.. I am very pleased with everything I've seen with 10 hours of play so far.. although it is taking a bit to get used to some of the changes in mechanics.. one thing fixed with the mouse control option which I appreciate...
love the game.. and would rather play than read all the ranting by some of the folks here...
We all wanted the game asap.. and it is what it is.. deal with it..
I love the game and really appreciate all the hard work that has gone into making it what it is..

 

[Sentoa]

No problem so far on a Pentium III 1 Ghz computer (below spec) with 512 MB RAM, Windows 2000 OS and an ATI Redeon 9600 SE 128 MB DDR AGP graphics card. Also, I still have the regular drivers. Did NOT upgrade to the Catalyst drivers.

 

[Blkbird]

Here is another statistic that reflects the situation.

Currently in this forum, we have:
Civ4 - Strategy & Tips: 119 threads, 949 posts;
Civ4 - Bug Reports: 199 threads, 1189 posts;
Civ4 - Technical Support: 395 threads, 2849 posts.

 

[jarcher]

No problems at all. Runs fine, enjoying it a lot.

P4 3.2
1gig
6600GT

 

[Wolfar]

Vote no if:
-Other graphical glitches
-Other sound glitches
-Text glitches

Seems to me with the above your game would or could still work. So the reasoning does not make sense.

 

[Stephan Hoyer]

I have occasional sound loss in the movies and general graphical lagginess (fortunately still playable), but I'm running with a graphics card under the minimum spec, so I don't complain .

 

[Stephan Hoyer]

Here is another statistic that reflects the situation.

Currently in this forum, we have:
Civ4 - Strategy & Tips: 119 threads, 949 posts;
Civ4 - Bug Reports: 199 threads, 1189 posts;
Civ4 - Technical Support: 395 threads, 2849 posts.

Oh come on. This is exactly what you would expect for any new game. Everyone is still installing it and we've barely had time to come up with any strategies.

 

[Belboz]

My game crashed to desktop almost every time I built a world wonder. I updated my video card driver, though, and things got better.